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Book Talk: HEX, Chapter 30

List of Prominent Characters So, the NL and EN tags are the ones actually used in the story. If it’s listed for both then it’s a shorthand I’m using to note which of the characters is which. Where no name for ‘both’ is included I haven’t used a name for both. (Expect this list to […]

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Book Talk: Hello World

I’ll admit, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect of Hello World and it started off hitting one of my pet peeves. It’s first person and Scott adamantly refused to tell us who he was trying to find (or why) for ages and I really hate first person coy-about-motivation narratives. Just tell the reader, damn it. Or at least […]

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Addendum: Indies and Translations, Should I or Shouldn’t I?

Aaaaand something I completely and utterly forgot to mention explicitly in my post about whether indies should invest in translation and feel is too important not to create a new post for it:Sometimes writers will have personal reasons to want their works translated. This is totally and absolutely a valid reason! I focused the initial […]

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Kindness of Teachers (Again)

And since, so far, anonymous people from my past have been a big thing in my posts on kindnesses I’ve experienced, let’s continue the trend! This time we’re focusing on university! Where I took syntax courses. They didn’t advance beyond intermediate English syntax, I don’t think, but that’s okay! You may have remembered from last […]

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Book Talk: HEX, Chapter 29

List of Prominent Characters So, the NL and EN tags are the ones actually used in the story. If it’s listed for both then it’s a shorthand I’m using to note which of the characters is which. Where no name for ‘both’ is included I haven’t used a name for both. (Expect this list to […]

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Culture Consumption March 2017

March, oh, March. Let’s just see what I’ve been up to in March. You know, apart from trying to recover my feet and get back up. ^_^ Let’s go! Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd: I think my main let-down about this book was how little it actually was about the body that Fergus found in the […]

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Upcoming Plans April 2017

I Want to Read: An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows City of Betrayal by Claudie Arseneault (betareading) I Want to Write: 40,000 words of fiction Yep. That’s a big jump from “I just want to write at all”, but that’s because I’m joining Camp NaNo this April! Whoot! My official goal is somewhere around […]

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Goal Review March 2017

I Want to Read: Books! I Want to Write: Words! Well. I… certainly managed this. I’ve even managed to do more of both than I’d anticipated! :O March was a bit of an odd month, all things considered, so let’s just focus on the positives in that I did a fair bit of reading big, […]

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Indies and Translations, Should I or Shouldn’t I?

I saw this discussed recently and I thought that, as a multilingual reader with experience with multiple language markets, I thought I’d share my thoughts on the matter. First things first: The answer is slightly different depending on the market you’re operating in. If you’re looking to translate your works into English, and you can […]

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